something made from scratch - an ILLTH workshop

Taking inspiration from Carolyn Lazard’s video A Recipe for Disaster (2017) and their essay How to be a Person in the Age of Autoimmunity (2013), Rita Munus presents a two hour workshop that aims to nudge open the door to your own creative writing practice and fuel discussion in regards to being chronically ill.
The workshop is for people who identify as chronically ill (in a persistent and recurring way/in a long-lasting or habitual and problematic way) be it physical or mental, visible or invisible, but one which repeatedly gets in the way of your life and how you might want to live it.
We will explore feelings around chronic illness through creative writing, discussion, shared experience and community building. Through short exercises we want to show participants how they can start to be able to write about their lives, and how exciting writing can be as a tool when living with chronic illness. The workshop will consist of writing exercises, meditations, musings and discussion but nobody need share what they’ve actually written.
No writing experience necessary!
Rita Munus are Sophie Brown and Charlotte Heather who run writing workshops and events with a focus on creative practice as a vehicle for discussion and exploring our own thoughts and feelings on subjects such as chronic illness, queerness, otherness and capitalism.
Contact us with any questions at <A HREF="mailto:ritamunus@gmail.com" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">ritamunus@gmail.com</A>
If you have previously attended the Sick! (ILLTH) workshop but would like to attend this one, please email to be put on a waiting list as we are keen to offer places first  to new people.
Access:
Please note that the LUX building is inside Waterlow Park, not on the street. There are maps at all entrances to the park showing the location of LUX. The nearest park entrance to LUX is on Dartmouth Park Hill by the Dartmouth Park Lodge. Please note Waterlow Park is on a hill and from Archway: there is a steep walk up Highgate Hill; there are buses that run from Archway to Highgate Village. Find more information here: https://lux.org.uk/about-us/visit-us Cinenova and LUX strive to be as accessible as possible so please contact us if you have any particular access needs by phone 020 3141 2960 or email infoATcinenova.org. The LUX building is fully wheelchair accessible and there are wheelchair accessible toilet facilities next door. Assistance dogs are welcome in all spaces.
Sick Woman Theory - Concrete Accident by Rita Munus. Image is a black & white printout of the essay Sick Woman Theory by Johanna Hedva (2016). The printout has been made partially illegible by the computer printer.

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